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  1. 2 days ago · The Dreyfus affair ( French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.

  2. 1 day ago · The film’s score by Émile Sornin feels plucked out of the golden age, as do Chokri’s framing choices. Yet, coupled with these foundational elements is an eccentric modernity and edge that presents itself via Pauline Gaillard ’s witty editing: quick montages cut between charged eye contact and single scenes are shot from numerous unconventional perspectives and spliced together side by side.

  3. 4 days ago · Émile Zola was a French writer (1840-1902), significant for leading naturalism in 19th century French literary circles. He wrote “Germinal,” “L’Assommoir,” and “Nana,” . He was also an art critic and a supporter of the newly born Impressionists.

  4. 5 days ago · The biopic was a staple of US cinema during the studio period, with some 300 films released between 1927 and 1960. The work of director William Dieterle, including The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Juarez (1939), and The Life of Emile Zola (1937), is particularly worthy of note.

  5. 2 days ago · Cézanne painted a portrait of Zola that Zola had asked for to encourage his friend, but Cézanne was unsatisfied with the result and destroyed the picture. In September 1861, disappointed by his rejection at the École, Cézanne returned to Aix-en-Provence and worked again in his father's bank.

  6. 2 days ago · The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln: George A. Billings: 1926: Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo: Davy Crockett: Cullen Landis: Josef Kajetán Tyl: Josef Kajetán Tyl: Zdeněk Štěpánek: The Life Story of Charles Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin: Chick Wango: Nell Gwyn: Nell Gwyn: Dorothy Gish: Nelson: Horatio Nelson, 1st ...

  7. 1 day ago · Like the film it ultimately became, the book is told from the perspective of an Alabama man with a low IQ, but incredibly big heart, who has led an extraordinary life marked by watershed moments ...